Memory of August 
2017 | 16mm | 6m | sound

A series of moments captured in room 139. Intimate spaces of time spent with my grandmother, Margaret during a month long recovery in a rehabilitation center in Baltimore, Maryland. 

Special Jury Award for Best Experimental Short, New Orleans Film Festival, 2017 
Edinburgh International Film Festival, International Premiere, 2017 

This is a short 16mm film, that studies the Klingenberg Power Plant and surrounding landscape in former East Berlin. The film has been hand processed and incorporates 35mm stills, interviews and field recordings of the area.
This is a current work in progress, which started in November 2015 at a residency at Lichtenberg Studios in Berlin Germany. 

One Document for Hope
2016 | 16mm to digital | B/W | 8m | sound 

One Document for Hope is a short film shot during the 2015 Baltimore Uprising. It incorporates the sterile and procedural narrative of the Baltimore City Police Scanner recorded on Monday April 27 against precious moments of gathering, celebration and protest in Baltimore from April 28 – May 3, 2015. The film was shot with a 16mm Bolex and edited in camera during the week of the 2015 Baltimore Uprising. The footage was provided through The Ann Arbor Film Festival ORWO Award for Best Cinematography. 

Documentation: Margaret Rorison 
Thanks to Karl Ekdahl for providing the BCP scanner recordings. 
Baltimore, Maryland 2015

Select Screenings
Affinities, or The Weight of Cinema curated by Kevin Jerome Everson & Greg de Cuir Jr., The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival
Ann Arbor Film Festival 

Sight Unseen is a roaming experimental film and workshop series which was initially funded by the MICA Launch Artist in Baltimore Award upon my graduation at MICA in the spring of 2012. Since it's inception, the series has worked with over 120 artists, curated 30 programs and has worked with many venues and institutions including, The Goethe Institute, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, Johns Hopkins University, The Pittsburgh Filmmakers and The High Zero Foundation.

Sight Unseen organizes a workshop series which is also funded by the MICA Launch Artists in Baltimore Award. Sight Unseen invites chemists, filmmakers and educators to Baltimore to teach workshops on various photochemical processes in collaboration with other community spaces throughout the city. Sight Unseen has invited The Process Reversal Collective, Australian Filmmakers, Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie and Alex Mackenzie to conduct workshops and present their works to the Baltimore community.

 In 2014, Process Reversal held a two day hand made emulsion workshop at Current Space Gallery and community darkroom. Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie from Nano Lab in Australia presented their handmade 16mm films at The Red Room and held a workshop at Full Circle Darkroom on their alternative film processing technique, CHROMAFLEX.  And in the Spring of 2016, Vancouver based artist, Alex Mackenzie came to Baltimore to present his live film performances at The Red Room and teach a workshop on expanded cinema at Psychic Readings, a performance and studio space in Baltimore. 

PULL/DRIFT
2013 | 16mm to video | 10m | sound

PULL/DRIFT is a collaborative project that evolved into many parts. In 2013,  Clarissa Stowell Gregory and Joshua Wade Smith collaborated on dance & sculpture for a performance involving: water, woods and raft. Clarissa & Joshua created the site-specific performance PULL / DRIFT on September 8th at Patapsco Valley State Park, Daniels Area.

For six months, Baltimore photographers/filmmakers Liz Donadio, Carr Kizzier, and myself documented the evolution and execution of this site-specific performance, which finalized in a gallery exhibition, Pull / Drift: In the Slipstream at Gallery CA from December 6 2013 - January 10, 2014.

The documentation that I captured from the dance performance became a 16mm film with a live sound accompaniment by sound artist, Josh Millrod. This piece premiered at Mono No Aware Festival of Expanded Cinema in December of 2013. 

Throughout my documentation process of Pull/Drift, I focused on the flow of the human form and its relationship to its surrounding environments. I was interested in discovering a dialogue between limbs and hips, the curves of the land, the mechanics of flesh, the rhythmic channeling through water, grass and earth. I was captivated by how the development of motion sculptured a new sense of time and established a magical sense of ritualistic bliss.

vindmøller
2014 | 16mm | 3m | sound

This short film is a study of the monolithic wind turbines along the shores of Amager, Copenhagen. Triple exposed on one roll of color film, then finding four generations of grain. The soundtrack is a recorded live-improvisation by artist Mario de Vega using unstable media and acoustic resonators

Winner of ORWO Award for Best Cinematography, 53rd Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2015

DER SPAZIERGANG
2013 | 16mm | 3m | sound

The film is shot on one 100' roll of 16mm color film, all of which was composed and shot in-camera. The film is made of up single frames taken during extensive walks throughout the layered historical landscape of Berlin, Germany in April 2013. 

The title, DER SPAZIERGANG (The Walk)  comes from a story by German-Swiss writer, Robert Walser.

Select Screenings 
27th The Images Festival, Toronto, ON
52nd Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
NEW YEAR, NEW WORKS, The Filmmakers Co-Op, NYC 

A series of Van Dyke prints, documenting my grandparents' relationship after moving in with their daughter.

SCANSION
2014 | 16mm | 7m | sound

“…in complete consciousness I understood what for me walking travel and cinema had in common. Sometimes I preferred walking, that is to say, talk
ing with my legs over speaking, which is to say, walking with my mouth- but basically, it’s the same thing”
-Serge Daney

SCANSION is a short 16mm film composed of extensive walks through various Baltimore landscapes. The film has been hand edited like a poem, where cuts function like line breaks, working to establish inherent rhythm and meter.

This documentation is an installation of my short film, running on a continuous loop with an accompanying surround sound speaker installation. The soundtrack has been compiled of field recordings taken on my walks through Baltimore City. Additional sound by C. Spencer Yeh and Lea Bertucci, voice by Kelly Laughlin.

In addition to making short films for the cinematic space and gallery, I am interested in film as a live form of storytelling as well as the various ways in which 16mm film projection can create a visceral experience for viewers. I have projected my films on bills with musicians, collaborated with sound artists to create live performances and used my projector as an instrument exploring ways it can work and improvise with sound, movement and performance.